How We Work

Civil society understands that to reach every citizen, Development
Education needs to be developed through formal and non-formal education
processes with a broad and extensive reach across Ireland. Building on
our strengths and experience, Development Perspectives has developed a
strategic plan to guide our work in support of global efforts to increase
Development Education opportunities for the citizens of Ireland and
beyond.

Development Perspectives recognises the importance of learning
from different local and global perspectives. Acknowledging the
value that emotional impact has on meaningful learning or movement
of mind, experiential learning plays an important role in all our
programmes. The SDG Advocate programme is an 8 month Development
Education journey designed for people not only to learn more about
poverty, inequality and climate change but to act and challenge some
of the complex development issues that face local and global communities.
This annual programme is still one of the core elements of our work and
shorter projects are designed based on its template.

Ensuring participants of our programmes develop the capacity to
take informed action on a range of development issues is the crux
of our work.

Since 2006 we have organically grown as an organisation which now
consists of six part- time staff and a nine-member Board of Management.
The SDG Advocate (Insight) alumni network meet twice yearly to plan,
evaluate and reflect on activities, develop professionally and to network.
We also host interns and student placements regularly. Our staff team
is well regarded individually because of their knowledge, skills,
resilient attitude and entrepreneurial spirit.

SDG Advocates, Senarta 2018

Values

As an organisation based on Justice, Equality, Sustainability,
Solidarity and Partnership, Development Perspectives places
these core values at the root of all our activities and
programmes.